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Trees inherit from their parent trees not only physical features and also specific environmental requirements, such as for a particular forest's soil, air, degree of moisture, and weather conditions.
(A) and also specific environmental requirements, such as for a particular forest's soil
(B) and also specific environmental requirements, like the soil of a particular forest
(C) but also specific environmental requirements, such as for the soil of a particular forest
(D) but also specific environmental requirements, like a particular forest's soil
(E) but also specific environmental requirements, such as for a particular forest's soil
(A) and also specific environmental requirements, such as for a particular forest's soil
(B) and also specific environmental requirements, like the soil of a particular forest
(C) but also specific environmental requirements, such as for the soil of a particular forest
(D) but also specific environmental requirements, like a particular forest's soil
(E) but also specific environmental requirements, such as for a particular forest's soil
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/04/science/scientists-try-to-create-forest-of-cloned-trees.html
New classes of clones are carefully brought along while the computer records of millions of variables on thousands of trees are expanded. One lesson learned long ago is that trees, even clones, carry within themselves not only the inherited traits of their parents but their inherited needs, such as a forest's specific soil, air, moisture or weather conditions. To survive the offspring must return to the same altitude, soil and climate. ''For trees,'' said Dr. Ritchie, ''you can't not go home again.''
What's wrong with c?
What's the difference between " the soil of a particular forest" and a particular forest's soil" in terms of meaning?
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New classes of clones are carefully brought along while the computer records of millions of variables on thousands of trees are expanded. One lesson learned long ago is that trees, even clones, carry within themselves not only the inherited traits of their parents but their inherited needs, such as a forest's specific soil, air, moisture or weather conditions. To survive the offspring must return to the same altitude, soil and climate. ''For trees,'' said Dr. Ritchie, ''you can't not go home again.''
What's wrong with c?
What's the difference between " the soil of a particular forest" and a particular forest's soil" in terms of meaning?
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04 Apr 2012, 14:56
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Choice C breaks parallel structure. Ignoring the rest, you can read the last part of the sentence like this: Requirements for a forest's soil, for a forest's air, for a forest's degree of moisture, and for a forest's weather conditions. Of course, "for a forest's" only needs to be stated once.
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The posts by Swoosh617 and godot 53 explain what's wrong with C. It doesn't make sense to say that trees require "degree of moisture" or "weather conditions." Even "air" is odd, as it's unlikely that the author is simply telling us that the need for air is genetic. Those phrases only make sense in context. The trees require the soil, air, degree of moisture, and weather conditions of a particular forest. Only D and E correctly set this up with the possessive ("a particular forest's soil, air," etc.).
There's nothing inherently wrong with saying "the soil of a particular forest." That construction just doesn't set us up for a meaningful, parallel list using the nouns that follow.
There's nothing inherently wrong with saying "the soil of a particular forest." That construction just doesn't set us up for a meaningful, parallel list using the nouns that follow.
